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<h2>Social Security Expenditure Data</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>This data set contains annual social security expenditure (as percent
of budget lagged by two years), the
relative frequency of mentions social justice received in the party's
platform in each year, and whether the president is Republican or
Democrat.  
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<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(hoff)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A table containing 5 variables (&quot;year&quot;, &quot;L2SocSec&quot;, &quot;Just503D&quot;, &quot;Just503R&quot;, &quot;RGovDumy&quot;) and 36 observations.</p>


<h3>Source</h3>

<p>ICPSR (replication dataset s1109)</p>


<h3>References</h3>

<p>Gary King and Michael Laver. &ldquo;On Party Platforms, Mandates, and
Government Spending,&rdquo; <em>American Political Science Review</em>,
Vol. 87, No. 3 (September, 1993): pp. 744-750.
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